Sunday, October 30, 2011

Sunday .....!

Here I am yesterday (in my "outdoor studio") with my gesso-ing project. I gessoed a 36"x36" canvas for my newest project along with a stack of smaller canvas panels. It took me hours, but I like doing tasks like this almost as well as painting paintings (especially when it is not raining...and I said almost).

This is a painting I touched up today. I made some corrections to the window and the lamp. I like this painting because it reminds me of an English Mystery (Colonel Mustard...in the Library....with the lead pipe). It didn't start out to be that way, but it took on that life of it's own somehow.

Ooh, it reminds me of that sense too, Celeste!! Your work always imbues a mood, something that I don't often feel in other works. I never can figure out how you do that! Beautiful piece indeed! And thank you for the compliment on the lettering work on the sketchbook.

"Library" does have a mysterious, who done it, feel to it, doen't it? I remember when you posted this before, and you know what? I still like it a lot. Nice tweaks.

As for gesso-ing canvases, I've always found that what seems to be such a mundane project really helps to clear my head and prepare me for future works. It's almost as if I'm gesso-ing my psyche as I gesso the canvas...

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